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Southwest Airlines was once well known for hiring only female flight attendants and dressing them in hot pants. At least one of its pilots apparently dislikes that it's not like that anymore.

"Eleven f***ing over-the-top f***ing a** f***ing homosexuals and a granny. Eleven! I mean, think of the odds of that," the unidentified pilot said during a March flight.

He was talking to his co-pilot after take off from Houston about his attempts at having a nightlife with Southwest Airlines crew members laying over in Chicago, a city he called "party land."......The pilot labeled his Chicago-based flight crew as a "continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes."

What the pilot didn't apparently know what that everything he was saying was being transmitted over an open microphone on the air traffic control frequency. Controllers and pilots heard it all and tried several times to curb the dialogue.

"OK, someone has a stuck mic and telling us about all their endeavors and we don't need to hear that," a controller is heard saying.......The airline suspended the pilot without pay, forced him to take sensitivity training and the put him back in the cockpit.

they were talking about this on WLS on Roe and Roper, they are allowed to talk after the plane reaches 10,000 ft, apparently this guy didn't wait that long....moron...

"Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings..." Patrick Henry

Look. If the pilot did his job and the plane didn't crash, what else really matters.

When I have to fly, I want the best pilots, not necessarily the most politically correct. Maybe that's just me?

This isn't a case of PC police coming down on someone for saying something out of sync with the times. This is a case of gross disrespect for his fellow employees and bringing shame on his airline. Employees with much higher positions have been fired for less.

While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun

This isn't a case of PC police coming down on someone for saying something out of sync with the times. This is a case of gross disrespect for his fellow employees and bringing shame on his airline. Employees with much higher positions have been fired for less.

I think you're making more out of it than is there.

The difference between pigs and people is that when they tell you you're cured it isn't a good thing.